[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#496510: network-manager crashed

[Eddy Petrișor]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


While tring to force the connection to an AP (Connect to other wireless
network) network-manager spilled the following in the logs without any
message or warning in the graphic interface:


Aug 25 13:13:45 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long 
(>120s), failing activation.
Aug 25 13:13:45 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failure scheduled...
Aug 25 13:13:45 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (EXT-1-1)
Aug 25 13:13:45 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed.
Aug 25 13:13:45 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device wlan0.
Aug 25 13:13:48 heidi kernel: [ 1181.901105] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled
Aug 25 13:13:48 heidi kernel: [ 1189.762920] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 18
Aug 25 13:13:48 heidi kernel: [ 1189.763066] PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:02:00.0 at 
offset 1 (was 100102, writing 100106)
Aug 25 13:13:49 heidi kernel: [ 1182.110852] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under 
/com/redhat/dhcp/wlan0 for sub-path wlan0.dbus.get.reason
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <debug> [1219659236.904744] 
nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_activation_ap(): Forcing AP 'EXT-1-1'
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_activation_ap(): 
nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_activation_ap: tried to manually connect to network 'EXT-1-1' without 
providing security information!
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  User Switch: 
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/wlan0 / EXT-1-1
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device wlan0.
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Device wlan0 activation scheduled...
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) started...
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) 
scheduled...
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) 
started...
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) 
scheduled...
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) 
complete.
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) 
starting...
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_signal_handler(): Caught signal 6.  Generating 
backtrace...
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: ******************* START **********************************
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 0: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager [0x428c37]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 1: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager [0x428e00]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x7f0f5cd67a90]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 3: /lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x7f0f5ca37ef5]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 4: /lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x183) [0x7f0f5ca39413]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 5: /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_assertion_message+0x104) 
[0x7f0f5d23b084]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 6: /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 [0x7f0f5d23b522]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 7: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager [0x416d54]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 8: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager [0x411832]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 9: 
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x232) [0x7f0f5d215892]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 10: /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 [0x7f0f5d21901d]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 11: /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1cd) 
[0x7f0f5d21954d]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 12: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager [0x4129d2]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 13: /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 [0x7f0f5d23e4a4]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 14: /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x7f0f5cd5ffc7]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: Frame 15: /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x7f0f5cad57cd]
Aug 25 13:13:56 heidi NetworkManager: ******************* END **********************************


Since NM should be used by any user aand is present by default on laptop
installations, I think it should not crash, or, at least, respawn itself
in case it crashes.


Note: the AP I tried to connect to is known to be working, but the signal strength is a little bit 
low in my area of the office.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser      3.108                       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus         1.2.1-3                     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd       3.0-4                       D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal          0.5.11-2                    Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown     0.6.8+nmu1                  high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute      20080725-2                  networking and traffic control too
ii  libc6        2.7-13                      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.1-3                     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib 0.76-1                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11  1.4.1-1                     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.16.4-2                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error 1.4-2                       library for common error values an
ii  libhal1      0.5.11-2                    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29      29-1                        Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1       1.1-2                       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0  0.6.6-2                     network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base     3.2-19                      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplican 0.6.4~git20080716.93ef879-1 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.6-2    network management framework (GNOM

network-manager suggests no packages.

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